[step-manufacturing] Minutes of conference call on Friday July 1

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
Alain Brail, AlBavis (Airbus retired),  France
Andreas Archenti, KTH, Sweden
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden
David Loffredo, STEP Tools, USA
Vincent Marchini, Ameritech, USA
Aydin Nassehi, University of Bath, UK


Apologies for Absence:
David Odendahl, Boeing, USA
Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, USA
Mikael Hedlind, KTH, Sweden
Magnus Lundgren, KTH, Sweden
Ronnie Fesperman, NIST, USA
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing, USA
Fred Proctor, NIST, USA


All,

The call was short because of Independence Day weekend. We discussed 
several items briefly.

The increased emphasis on manufacturing efficiency in the USA and Europe 
is leading to a number of new initiatives that may be funded in the 
upcoming year:

1. Machining centers that integrate machining and measurement using 
STEP-NC as a control language and MT Connect as an information bus.
2. One or more forums to manage data exchange between CAM systems.
3. Projects to model machine tools individually, or as part of factory 
systems.
4. New demonstrations to show STEP-NC being used to machine very small 
parts, or very large parts in flexible structures.
5. New demonstration to show STEP-NC being used to control manufacturing 
robots.

There may be a micro-machining demonstration in Texas in October and a 
Tool management demonstration in Sweden in June. The latter will be part 
of an ISO meeting.

The next conference call on July 15 will feature a presentation by 
Andreas Archenti of KTH on modeling machine tool accuracy.

A recording of this conference call is on the ftp site.
ftp://ftp.steptools.com/private/Undecided/stepmanuf_telecon_20110701.wmv

Martin Hardwick
Team Leader